On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, it's no more good (or bad) than shipping a .tar.bz2 of > some category A open source code (given the license). +1 >From your description, this is different from a compiled object file, it's compressed source. No information is lost, it's just obfuscated and can be restored. It's a little annoying as would be releasing source transformed via rot-13, but it's still source IMO. > It would be more better, I suppose, to grab the corresponding source > tree and run their build script as part of your build script, but I'm > a bit puzzled as to whether this, as is, is actually a problem. Doesn't seem like a blocker to me, so long as people have expanded the archive and are happy with what's inside. Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org